https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:23:13 +0000 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:55:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1937 https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7115.html#7115 Author: jenbeast
Subject: 1937
Posted: 24-October-2008 at 8:55pm

Thanks so much this is great]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:55:22 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7115.html#7115 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7113.html#7113 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1937
Posted: 24-October-2008 at 8:32pm

Hi,
  "QuoteMe" is a fake product set as a "BTO Item" and assigned to the configuration of the actual products you wish to sell which you would set as "BTO Products" - The end result looks like this :-


With a small change to the languages file you can get rid of or change the word "Configure" as well. It's not perfect, but will achieve what your client wants I believe. Looking at it I should have put a space in "QuoteOnly" as well :-)


Edited by Hamish - 24-October-2008 at 8:33pm]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:32:11 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7113.html#7113 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7106.html#7106 Author: jenbeast
Subject: 1937
Posted: 24-October-2008 at 2:06pm

ooooo Hamish that is a very interesting idea. So the "quoteMe" is a separate product that is required for all products, very sneaky. So how would the client receive these quote requests? If purchasing is disallowed then the only product purchase that comes through the system is for the "quoteMe" product? As long as there's some way that would work by Jove, I think this might work!]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:06:06 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7106.html#7106 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7105.html#7105 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1937
Posted: 24-October-2008 at 1:13pm

OK, After a quick experiment I have a fairly acceptable solution which I'll document on the WIKI as well. Here goes.

- Create a category "Quotes Only" (or similar)
- Add a "BTO Item" and assign it to that category.
   - Give the item an SKU etc. I used an SKU of "QuoteMe" a product name of "Product Available for Quote Only" and the same text as the description.
   - Make it's price zero.
   - Set inventory to"disregard stock" & if you wish to give it really high stock level.

Create/amend the product you wish to sell.
   - Set it to "Hide default configuration" and "Skip Product Details Page" - the latter one avoids the customer being presented with a "Customize" button.
  - Configure the product and assign the "QuoteMe" BTO Item, setting it as a required category using radio buttons & making the item the default item.
  - Set  "Disallow Purchasing (quoting only)" as desired.

The end result is something like this - Rats, Can't get the image to upload, but give it a try. I'll try & get an image available later, but have to dash out now. Anyway, it looks fairly acceptable to me.  You can re-use the same BTO Item for all the BTO Products you wish.

Please let me know if this is meets your needs.
 


Edited by Hamish - 24-October-2008 at 1:16pm]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:13:40 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7105.html#7105 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7104.html#7104 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1937
Posted: 24-October-2008 at 12:49pm

Hi JenBeast,
     Quotes are a feature available in BTO products only & BTO products need to be configured in the admin panels. I'm trying to think of a clean solution to match your needs, but none comes to mind straight away.  Perhaps a simple "cludge" solution would be to make them all products and create a "BTO Item" of "Request a quote" or some such similar harmless string and use it for all the products. I've noidea how that would look, but it's worth a quick experiment with a simgle product.
]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:49:59 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7104.html#7104 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7092.html#7092 Author: jenbeast
Subject: 1937
Posted: 22-October-2008 at 8:05pm

Just FYI - I'm still working on getting this cart working the way the client wants it: All products searchable and not selling anything - just allowing a quote request on all products.

I'm going back to thinking the easier route to follow would be to make everything a BTO product so it's searchable and then somehow get to request quotes on these products even though they're not configurable. There are some things on the site which will stay as BTO items but many things are only set up that way so that they will have the "request a quote" feature.

Hamish - you seem to have the knowing - do you think this is a do-able option: Somehow getting the products without cusomizable items to have the request a quote feature instead of add to cart?

I know this is an old post now - I may start a new thread if I don't get a reply - thanks in advance for any guidance!

Edited by jenbeast - 22-October-2008 at 8:06pm]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:05:26 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post7092.html#7092 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6671.html#6671 Author: jenbeast
Subject: 1937
Posted: 08-September-2008 at 7:04pm

Thanks so much for the responses!

We made all the products be BTO products because we're not selling anything online - just giving quotes. There didn't seem to be a way to have "request a quote" functions and no "add to cart" on regular products.

If there is a way to make the cart work this way I'd switch everything back to regular products so they could be searchable. If anyone has any ideas that'd be great but lately I've been seeing the limitations of PC and while I've set up many a happy client with this cart lately it's been hard to get all the features I need.

Another thing this client wants is to have only one "request a quote" button on the quote page for all products added instead of individual buttons for each BTO item, oy!]]> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:04:14 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6671.html#6671 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6652.html#6652 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1937
Posted: 07-September-2008 at 8:28pm

Hi Jen,
    Ben is correct, the BTO Items are explicitly excluded from the search via the SQL query string. However, removing that would not solve the problem, as the BTO Item would then show up, but at best, would be available to view, but not buy (via the link), and at worst the link wouldn't work, I suspect the latter.  As per my earlier post you need to restucture things a bit & you will get the results your after. If you need additional guidance let us know.
 
]]> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:28:52 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6652.html#6652 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6651.html#6651 Author: benpate
Subject: 1937
Posted: 07-September-2008 at 4:14pm

Jen, you could probably modify the sql query string to include bto items. I dont know where this is stored and i have not tried this before, but I would assume it can be done.]]> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:14:21 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6651.html#6651 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6532.html#6532 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1937
Posted: 28-August-2008 at 10:16am

To clarify, BTO ITEMS are only visible within the products they have been assigned to.]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:35 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/search-bto-items-oh-help_topic1937_post6532.html#6532